Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

★ 7.5 / 10
IMDb
Directed by Terry Gilliam
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Synopsis

The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.

Editorial

Why Eltorama recommends this film

Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s book was treated as a noisy cartoon on release. The cartoon turned out to be the whole point — Thompson’s prose is itself a cartoon. The film is now the only adaptation Thompson ever fully approved.